ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM “SELFITIS”

December 21, 2017admin

Do you or someone you know feel a compulsion to constantly take selfies? If so, you might be suffering from what some researchers call selfitis.

Researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the Thiagarajar School of Management maintain that those who suffer from selfitis seek to boost their confidence, seek attention, improve their mood, conform with their social group and be socially competitive.

Answer the following questions on a scale of one to five, where five is strongly agree and one is strongly disagree. The higher your score the greater the likelihood that you suffer from selfitis.

I gain more acceptance among my peer group when I take selfies and share them on social media.

I am able to express myself more in my environment through selfies.

Taking different selfie poses helps increase my social status.

I feel more popular when I post my selfies on social media.

Taking more selfies improves my mood and makes me feel happy.

I become more positive about myself when I take selfies.

I become a strong member of my peer group through selfie postings.

Taking selfies provides better memories about the occasion and the experience.

I post frequent selfies to get more ‘likes’ and comments on social media.

By posting selfies, I expect my friends to praise me.

Taking selfies instantly modifies my mood.

I take more selfies and look at them privately to increase my confidence.

When I don’t take selfies, I feel detached from my peer group.

I take selfies as trophies for future memories.

I use photo editing tools to enhance my selfie to look better than others .

Source: THE SUN/reprinted in the NY Post

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